Waterworks’ Summer ARTventures 2013
Educating and inspiring the creativity and imagination in every child!
Ages 4-5 Studio Classes
Butterflies and Bears / August 5-9 / Morning, 9-12
Step outside and discover all the marvelous textures and patterns in nature.
Modeling the stories and illustrations of Eric Carle (Brown Bear, Brown
Bear), students will create textured pictures and collages using paint, wax,
glue, paper, and found objects.
Instructor: Debbie Hoffman
Stay-All-Day—Price #2
Stay-All-Day—Price #2
Stay-All-Day — Price #1
Stay-All-Day—Price #1
Stay-All-Day—Price #1
Ages 6-8 Studio / Specialty Classes
2-D to 3-D, Recycled / July 8-12 / Morning, 9-12 (studio)
Sculpt, paint, draw—create a series of mixed media artworks using
recycled materials. Students create a variety of 2-D and 3-D work,
including plastic bottle scrimshaw, printed tapa cloth (from the South
Pacific), weathervanes, and box sculptures.
Instructor: Ingrid Erickson
A Closer Look / July 8-12 / Afternoon, 1-4 (studio)
Experiment with a variety of techniques to explore sculpture, printmaking, drawing, painting, and collage. Take a close look at WVAC exhibiting artists, then return to the classroom to learn the basics of each
medium while emphasizing creativity and fun in creating your own
unique artwork.
Instructor: Marina Bare
The World of Picasso / July 15-19 / Morning, 9-12 (studio)
Enter the exciting world of Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous
artists in the history of Western art. Try your hand at several of his
favorite media including painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking.
Instructor: Marina Bare
Build Your Own “Sound Suit” / July 15-19 / Afternoon, 1-4 (studio)
Learn about the fantastic wearable fabric sculptures of American artist,
Nick Cave, and create your own “sound suit” using a variety of colorful,
reflective, textured, and sound-producing materials. Students will
design and create a unique full-body sculpture, including a mask.
Instructor: Ingrid Erickson
FOR MEMBERS ONLY - MULTIPLE CLASS DISCOUNTS!
Not Yet a Member?
Become a member today and take advantage of multiple class
discounts, as well as receiving class and exhibition mailings!
Register online at www.waterworks.org, download
registration forms and bring them in, or call 704-636-1882
Ages 12-18 Studio / Specialty Classes
Claymation / July 8-12 / Afternoon, 1-4 (specialty)
Create your own stop-motion movie. Sketch out your story on a storyboard, design clay characters and props, and build background sets.
Students will film their movies using video technology and computer
software. The movies will be edited and each filmmaker will receive a
DVD. Class limited to 6 students.
Instructor: Jackie Black
Expressive Pastels / July 15-19 / Afternoon, 1-4 (specialty)
Discover the magic of creative drawing, illustration, color, and pastel
painting. Learn from a professional pastel artist how to build layers of
rich colors to create luminous pastel paintings, use shadows and lines
to bring artwork into focus, and experiment with fun blending of colors
and values to produce strong, vibrant artwork.
Instructor: Walter Stanford
Masters of Modern Sculpture / July 22-26 / Afternoon, 1-4
(studio)
Use your imagination and 3-dimensional skills to create sculptures
inspired by the great masters of modern sculpture. Explore a variety of
media, including wire, plexi-glass, assemblage art, and balsa foam
reductive sculpture.
Instructor: Brenda Gariepy
Fundamentals of Drawing / July 29-Aug 2 / Afternoon, 1-4
(studio)
For students who love to draw. Learn the tricks and secrets that professional artists use to create your own masterpieces in this informative
class. Working inside and outside, students will use a variety of media,
including pencil, charcoal, conte crayons, and more.
Instructor: Ray Moose
Portrait Projects / July 22-26 / Morning, 9-12 (studio)
Let your personality shine through as you create an array of selfportraits and portraits of family, friends, and pets using paper sculpture,
texture casting, soft sculpture, and more!
Instructor: Marina Bare
2-D to 3-D, Recycled / July 22-26 / Afternoon, 1-4 (studio)
Sculpt, paint, draw—create a series of mixed media artworks using
recycled materials. Students create a variety of 2-D and 3-D work,
including plastic bottle scrimshaw, printed tapa cloth (from the South
Pacific, weathervanes, and box sculptures.
Instructor: Ingrid Erickson
A Creature a Day - Pastels
Masterpieces of Faberge
Explorations in Clay / July 29-Aug 2 / Morning, 9-12 (specialty)
What could be more fun than taking a journey through time with clay?
We will explore the Ancient Times as well as get futuristic with our own
contemporary creations while learning the skills, techniques, and vocabulary that a potter uses.
Instructor: Catherine Cross
Mix it up with Mixed Media / July 29-Aug 2 / Afternoon, 1-4 (studio)
Draw, paint, print, and use found objects and special papers, and even
get into the picture yourself with a bit of photo imagery. Young artists
will experience “studio art” while enhancing their artistic skills, brush up
on “arty” vocabulary, and practice new techniques.
Instructor: Catherine Cross
Birdhouses in Clay / Aug 5-9 / Morning, 9-12 (specialty)
Construct creative houses for backyard birds using a variety of handbuilding techniques. Explore surface decorations and experiment with
glazing techniques in this exciting class.
Instructor: Brent Smith
Mixing it up with Mixed Media / Aug 5-9 / Afternoon, 1-4 (studio)
Draw, paint, print, and use found objects and special papers, and even
get into the picture yourself with a bit of photo imagery. Young artists
will experience “studio art” while enhancing their artistic skills, brush up
on “arty” vocabulary, and practice new techniques.
Instructor: Catherine Cross
Stay-All-Day—Price #3
Stay All Day Program
Bring a bag lunch and stay all day!
Pair a morning and afternoon class within the same
week/same age group (see highlighted schedule)
Price #1—$150 Members / $180 Not Yet Members
Price #2—$160 Members / $190 Not Yet Members
Price #3—$170 Members / $200 Not Yet Members
Stay-All-Day—Price #2
Messy Art Session 3 / July 29-Aug 2 / Morning, 9-12
The fun continues with another week of Messy Art. Come dressed to get
messy and creative! Students will explore various hands-on artistic media,
including paint, paper-craft, and clay.
Instructor: Debbie Hoffman
(Specialty classes include Clay, Claymation, Printmaking, Pastels)
Stay-All-Day—Price #3
Messy Art Session 2 / July 22-26 / Morning, 9-12
The fun continues with another week of Messy Art. Come dressed to get
messy and creative! Students will explore various hands-on artistic media,
including paint, paper-craft, and clay.
Instructor: Debbie Hoffman
$75 Members / $90 Not Yet Members
$85 Members / $100 Not Yet Members
Clay Adventures in Pop Art / June 24-28 / Morning, 9-12 (specialty)
After studying the world of Pop Art, students in this fun class will draw inspiration from the work of famous pop artists including Andy Warhol and Ray
Lichtenstein. Sculpt your own “pop”ular culture creations using glazes for
color.
Instructor: Brenda Gariepy
Plein Air Painting
Sculpt It
Stay-All-Day—Price #2
COLORific! / July 15-19 / Morning, 9-12
Students will learn about the primary colors—red, yellow, blue—and how to
mix them together to make all the colors in the rainbow. Paint, splash,
splatter, squirt, and throw different colors to create masterpieces.
Instructor: Debbie Hoffman
Class Fees
Studio Classes
Specialty Classes
Ages 9-11 Studio / Specialty Classes
Stay-All-Day—Price #2
Messy Art, Session 1 / July 8-12 / Morning, 9-12
Come dressed to get messy and creative! Students will explore various
hands-on artistic media, including paint, paper-craft, and clay. Three
sessions offered. Each week is unique!
Instructor: Debbie Hoffman
Register for each class individually OR
for our NEW Stay All Day Program
Introduction to Pottery / July 8-12 / Morning, 9-12 (specialty)
Students will learn a variety of techniques to create hand-built and
wheel-thrown art, then decorate it using slips, glazes, and surface
textures. The potter’s wheel will be introduced and students will learn
to center clay to create cups and bowls. Perfect for beginners or
returning students.
Instructor: Brenda Gariepy
Around the World with Clay / July 8-12 / Afternoon, 1-4 (specialty)
Think “global” as this unique clay class takes a look at wheel and hand
building techniques from around the world, as well as the interesting
history of clay work. Students will experiment with glazes and surface
treatments.
Instructor: Ingrid Erickson
Plein Air Painting / July 15-19 / Morning, 9-12 (studio)
Paint in the “open air!” Experience the opportunity to explore traditional
painting methods in a natural setting. You will see things that you
never noticed before! Walking permission form required!
Instructor: Phyllis Steimel
Hand & Wheel Pottery / July 15-19 / Afternoon, 1-4 (specialty)
Make your own set of vases, cups, or containers in this exciting class.
Students will learn how to work “tall” on the potter’s wheel, as well as
explore hand-building techniques and surface design.
Instructor: Brent Smith
Sculpt It / July 22-26 / Morning, 9-12 (specialty)
Use coil, pinch, slab, and mold-making construction in this clay sculpting class. Students will learn the basics of clay work, as well as glazing and firing, while creating your own unique sculptures of all shapes
and sizes.
Instructor: Brenda Gariepy
Hand & Wheel Pottery / July 22-26 / Afternoon, 1-4 (specialty)
Make your own set of vases, cups, or containers in this exciting class.
Students will learn how to work “tall” on the potter’s wheel, as well as
explore hand-building techniques and surface design.
Instructor: Brent Smith
Drawing in 3-D / July 29-Aug 2 / Morning, 9-12 (studio)
Create realistic drawings by discovering the basic techniques used by
professional artists—composition, design, and perspective. Learn
methods to create value and give dimensional quality to your drawings. You will explore a variety of media, including pencil, charcoal,
and conte crayon, drawing from model subjects while learning to
“draw what you see.”
Instructor: Ray Moose
A Creature a Day / July 29-Aug 2 / Afternoon, 1-4 (specialty)
Discover the magic of creative drawing, illustration, and pastel painting. Learn from a professional pastel artist how to build layers of rich
colors to create luminous pastel paintings, use shadows and lines to
bring artwork into focus, and experiment with fun blending of colors
and values to produce strong, vibrant artwork. Bring your imagination
and be ready to invent a daily creature that “lives in a place that only
you and I can see.”
Instructor: Walter Stanford
Adventures in Printmaking / Aug 5-9 / Morning, 9-12 (specialty)
Young artists will explore the process of printmaking while learning
about the history, vocabulary, tools, and techniques of printmaking in
this fun and creative class.
Instructor: Catherine Cross
Sculpt like Brian Jungen / Aug 5-9 / Afternoon, 1-4 (studio)
Have you ever seen a life-sized dinosaur skeleton built from plastic
chairs or a mask made out of shoes? Learn about the work of contemporary Canadian sculptor, Brian Jungen, and create your own 3-D
sculpture using non-traditional materials. Students will study 3-D
design, use of color, texture, shape, space, and form.
Instructor: Ingrid Erickson
Each class concludes with Student
Demonstrations/Exhibitions for their
families on Fridays. Please arrive 30 minutes prior
to the end of Friday’s class.
Portrait Projects
Claymation—students share with their parents—AWESOME
2-D to 3-D Recycled
SKETCH—DESIGN—BUILD—CREATE
Claymation
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS
MARINA BARE earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from St. Petersburg Art Academy in Russia. She is a WVAC ARTstop instructor and a professional artist, specializing in oils and mixed media artwork.
JACKIE BLACK is currently in her twelfth year of teaching art in the Rowan-Salisbury Elementary schools. She earned a BA in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting and Printmaking from Hampton University,
Virginia.
CATHERINE CROSS has spent the past 30 years engaging people of all ages with the art process and spirit of creation. Her life’s mission is to create, inspire, educate and advocate for the arts. She received her
BFA from Guilford College and has taught numerous classes and workshops, both at Waterworks and the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida.
INGRID ERICKSON earned Studio Art/Art History degrees at Middlebury College in Vermont, and studied art in Asia for several years. She is a professional artist specializing in works in cut paper and mixed
media art.
BRENDA GARIEPY studied at Alfred University, New York, and has teaching experience in NY, PA, and NC. She currently teaches for the Rowan-Salisbury Elementary Schools and specializes in hand-built and
wheel-thrown pottery classes at the Waterworks.
DEBBIE HOFFMAN is a teacher’s assistant with the Rowan-Salisbury Schools. She has worked as a choreographer for PPT and owned and operated a dance studio in Salisbury. She continues to teach
students visual art techniques through music and dance, both at WVAC and summer church camps.
RAY MOOSE is a professional artist and self-taught sculptor, working in Mount Pleasant, NC. He specializes in large-scale bronze works and recently worked with Waterworks and Rowan County fourth-graders on
the Rowan Cotton Mill Tile Public Art Project.
BRENT SMITH is an East Carolina graduate who works as a full-time potter. He works in his studio and showroom behind his farmhouse in Rowan County, continually experimenting with forms, clays, glazes,
and textures.
WALTER STANFORD works professionally as a freelance illustrator, creating art for regional and national ad agencies, publishers, and corporations. A graduate of East Carolina University, he is a member of
the Piedmont, Southeastern, and Appalachian Pastel Societies.
PHYLLIS STEIMEL is a founding member of Plein Air Carolina and an avid painter. She excels in working with students of all ages, pulling from her experience as a swimming coach. She earned her BFA from
Syracuse University and has taught Waterworks classes for seven years.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
CLASS SIZES ARE LIMITED - REGISTER EARLY!
 For your convenience, the Registration and Emergency Contact Form is available to
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download from our website. You may register online with payment via PayPal; in person,
or by phone during regular business hours with cash, check , Visa or MasterCard.
Select classes in the appropriate age group for your child. Please note that children
participating in each age group must reach the appropriate age for that class by June 1,
2013. (NO exceptions)
Annual WVAC Membership must be valid at time of registration to receive the member
rates and discounts.
Members registering for three or more classes (at the same time) will receive $5 off the
class tuition fee of the third and subsequent classes per student.
If class tuition fees are not paid-in-full upon registration, a NON-REFUNDABLE and NONTRANSFERABLE deposit of $25 per class, per student is required. This fee will hold the
student’s spot in the class and the fee will be applied toward the full class tuition.
ALL TUITION FEES MUST BE PAID IN FULL BY MAY 31, 2013. If tuition is not paid in full
by that time, the registration process IS NOT considered complete and the student may
lose their spot in the requested class(es).
To ensure a quality experience for all involved, WVAC reserves the right to refuse/remove
a student due to behavioral problems. If a situation arises and a student is asked to leave,
class fees will be forfeited with no refund/voucher.
A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. To be considered for a
scholarship, the application deadline is May 15, 2013 for the Summer ARTventures
program. For additional information and an application, please contact WVAC MondayFriday, 9am-5pm, 704.636.1882. Please note: Scholarships are limited to one per family/
household, per calendar year.
Students will be put on a waiting list for full classes. If an opening becomes available,
students on the waiting list will be contacted by phone and/or email with the spaces being
filled on a first come/first served basis. ALL TUITION PAYMENT GUIDELINES WILL
APPLY.
WVAC reserves the right to cancel any class with insufficient enrollment and will refund
100% of your class fee including the $25 registration fee. Notification of class
cancellations will be made by email at least 7 calendar days prior to the first day of class.
Any request for withdrawal or cancellation must be made in person or over the phone ten
(10) business days before the start of the class(es) to be eligible for a WVAC voucher.
Email and voicemail withdrawal or cancellation WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED and any
voucher due will be forfeited.
Summer Volunteer Program
Earn school community service credits while
adding to your art resumé.
Volunteers needed, age 13 and up, to assist in
ARTventures classes helping instructors,
students, and staff.
Applications are available on our website at
www.waterworks.org or at the front desk during
regular gallery hours.
For more information, please call 704-636-1882.
 NO MONETARY REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN FOR WITHDRAWAL OR CANCELLATION.
WVAC Vouchers will be issued for future use. Member discounts and registration fees will
be forfeited.
EDUCATION
EXHIBITION
OUTREACH
The Waterworks Visual Arts Center is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is funded by individual memberships,
corporations, and businesses, foundations, the City of Salisbury and Rowan County. The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, a federal
grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their commu nities,
supports the WVAC. This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultur al Resources
and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Gallery hours: MWF 10am-5pm, TT 10am-7pm, S 11am-3pm
123 East Liberty Street
Salisbury, NC 28144
704.636.1882
www.waterworks.org
Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums
New format with longer class times and
stay all day program!
Summer ARTventures 2013
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
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Zip Code 28144